Second Book of Chronicles 27

¹ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.

² He did what is pleasing to Yahweh, just as his father Uzziah had done. But he did not enter the sanctuary of Yahweh. As for the people, they were still corrupt.

³ It was he who built the Upper Gate of the Temple of Yahweh and carried out considerable work on the wall of the Ophel.

⁴ He built towns in the highlands of Judah, and fortified places and towers in the arable lands.

⁵ He fought against the king of the Ammonites.[*a] He defeated these, and that year the Ammonites had to give him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. This was the amount that the Ammonites had to pay him, and the same for the second and third years.

⁶ Jotham became powerful because he kept an even course in the presence of Yahweh his God.

⁷ The rest of the history of Jotham, all his wars and his policy, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

⁸ He was twenty-five years old when be came to the throne and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

⁹ Then Jotham slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the Citadel of David; his son Ahaz succeeded him.